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3/22/26 – The San Jacinto West Fork has migrated almost a mile closer to flood-prone Scarborough Development land near the giant Hallett Mine. State Agency Charged with Flood Mitigation Invests in Development of Flood-Prone Land In 2025, Scarborough Lane Development purchased 5,300+ acres of flood-prone land near the confluence of the San Jacinto West Fork, […]
9/17/25 – Update – In response to a request from ReduceFlooding.com, TCEQ has now supplied its FULL report, WITH attachments. Accordingly, I have modified the copy below to delete references to the missing attachments. I have also hyperlinked the full report where the partial report was previously. Caution though: it’s almost 20 megs. I also […]
2/27/25 – Hallett Materials has finally plugged a year-long leak in its Porter sand mine on the San Jacinto West Fork. According to residents who live near the leak, an investigator from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) visited the mine yesterday. For more than six hours, he sampled water leaking from the mine. […]
2/23/2025 – The mammoth Hallett Sand Mine has been leaking continuously into the San Jacinto West Fork for a year, according to neighbors. I first reported this particular leak on February 9, 2024. But it’s only one of several problems at the same mine. And the cost of dredging downstream from it is now approaching […]
Correction: This sand pit in this post was sold by Hallett to Riverwalk Porter LLC on January 23, 2024. The San Jacinto West Fork has become totally blocked by sediment at the Hallett Mine in Porter and rerouted itself through the giant sand mine. The old river channel has been sealed off by sediment. And […]
Correction: This sand pit in this post was sold by Hallett to Riverwalk Porter LLC on January 23, 2024. A breach at the giant Hallett Mine on the San Jacinto West Fork that began in late January or early February is still open and expanding. Two Pairs of Pictures, Two Weeks Apart I first reported […]
Correction: This sand pit in this post was sold by Hallett to Riverwalk Porter LLC on January 23, 2024. Google Earth shows a massive breach in the southernmost pond of the Hallett San Jacinto West Fork mine in a satellite image dated February 19, 2024. Here’s how the same area looked today from a drone. […]
On December 22, I received an email from a Montgomery County resident named Jody Binnion. He lives near the Hallett sand mine on the San Jacinto West Fork and can see the mine from his home. Binnion said that the level of a 170-acre pond had dropped at least 2-3 feet and maybe more – […]
5/24/26 – What’s wrong with this picture? It shows the confluence of Spring Creek (l) and the San Jacinto West Fork (r). I took it at approximately 3PM today. It has not been retouched. You are looking at the actual color difference in the water coming down the two streams after several days of rain. […]
4/9/2026 – Another “lesson learned” about flooding since Hurricane Harvey has been role of sedimentation from industrial-scale sand mining upstream from Lake Houston. It can only be appreciated from the air. Few, if any, urban watersheds have such dense clusters of sand mines directly upstream from their water reservoirs in major river channels. This is […]